I would cut BU due to their grade deflation. So the real contenders are UMass and NEU. Both would be different but would offer good opportunities.
You’ll stop talking about top 20 med schools once you’re in college. You’ll have to survive the pre-med gauntlet (3/4 don’t) then apply to med school (2/3 odds you won’t get into ANY med school). Basically you don’t choose your med school - a med school chooses you and you feel lucky you got into one even if it’s in a state you’ve never been to.
A good university for pre-med is supportive, offers lots of resources and tutoring, has a collaborative student body. (So, not JHU for science/premed; it is best applied to at the med school level). It is also affordable with limited or no student debt; a best value is good quality for price, so you should be in the top 25% and it should be a decent college (top 100 university or LAC, any from the Princeton Review’s Best Colleges list or the Fiske guide.) Getting into the honors college or not gives you a clue as to where you stand relative to the student body.
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